For many African languages there are few written resources online that can be used to train AI. The African Next Voices project is trying to change that by recording underrepresented languages and ...

Renowned Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been in Germany, reading from his work at the event "Voices of Africa." He spoke to DW about the crucial role of African languages in empowering the ...

Cohere Labs unveils AfriAya, a vision-language dataset aimed at improving how AI models understand African languages and ...

However, many children, schools and caregivers across South Africa continue to struggle with access to reading materials in African languages, according to Dr Xolisa Guzula, an early literacy expert ...

EFF leader Julius Malema has challenged white South Africans to teach themselves African languages and visit townships to better understand black people and their struggles. He was speaking outside ...

Story School, the communication school of Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), in collaboration with the French-African ...

Experts say machines need more data on languages to be able to speak and understand them but African languages lug behind Show more While 2000 of the world’s languages are African, African languages ...